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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1804785, member: 27832"]Ooh, Ike dollar -- tricky! But since the Sacs are still being made, I think it only counts as two generations back. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose one could make the case that IHCs are three generations back, from Shield, LM and Wheat Lincolns. Four, if you differentiate copper from zinc; five or six if you count the wartime compositions -- but that's getting a bit silly. Might as well count seventy-odd "generations" for the State/AtB quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did have a bank teller show me a Capped Bust half that someone cashed in just a couple of years ago. Five generations back, and I think you'd have a hard time going back much further than that -- sure, someone <i>could</i> cash even a flowing-hair coin, but the chances of any one of us being the lucky recipient are pretty slim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1804785, member: 27832"]Ooh, Ike dollar -- tricky! But since the Sacs are still being made, I think it only counts as two generations back. :) I suppose one could make the case that IHCs are three generations back, from Shield, LM and Wheat Lincolns. Four, if you differentiate copper from zinc; five or six if you count the wartime compositions -- but that's getting a bit silly. Might as well count seventy-odd "generations" for the State/AtB quarters. I did have a bank teller show me a Capped Bust half that someone cashed in just a couple of years ago. Five generations back, and I think you'd have a hard time going back much further than that -- sure, someone [I]could[/I] cash even a flowing-hair coin, but the chances of any one of us being the lucky recipient are pretty slim.[/QUOTE]
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